St Joe's Blog

St Joe's Blog

Friday 20 May 2011

Rockets to the moon?

In our Space Station topic, we have been following the journey of the Space Shuttle, which launched for the last time earlier this week, docking with the International Space Station on Wednesday. This led us to thinking about the force needed to move a rocket. We tried this experiment with balloons to see whether we had enough puffs to launch them over 5 metres. After a few false starts, we succeeded. How much farther could we have gone?

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